USA Rice University -- 12 Sep 1962 -- US President Kennedy speaks before a crowd of 35,000 people at Rice University in the football field. The following are excerpts from his speech: " ...We set sail on his new sea because there is a new knowledge...

Red River is a 1948 Western film directed and produced by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift, giving a fictional account of the first cattle drive from Texas to Kansas along the Chisholm Trail. The dramatic tension stems from a...

School begins by Louis Dalrymple, 1866-1905, 1899 chromolithograph. Print shows Uncle Sam as a teacher, standing behind a desk in front of his new students who are labelled 'Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii, [and] Philippines';they do not look happy...